Facebook says an internal investigation revealed no evidence of political favoritism in the "trending topics" tool. However, the social media giant is making changes to the feature. WSJ's Lee Hawkins ...
A former Facebook employee alleges the people tasked with curating Facebook’s “trending” news section suppressed conservative news, creating a “chilling effect,” Gizmodo reported Monday. The former ...
Following accusations of deliberately manipulating its Trending Topics section to suppress content from conservative media, it came to light that Facebook did have humans working on the feature, and ...
In an apparent attempt to eliminate political bias from its trending topics section, Facebook recently announced that a new algorithm would take over writing descriptions of the top news stories.
Facebook says it is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a "trending topic" on the giant social network, a move adopted after a backlash over a report saying it ...
Facebook ran into trouble earlier when its Trending Topics list editors were alleged to be biased against conservative. With an algorithm-only new system Trending highlighted a far-right Website's ...
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